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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surely to be regretted that the faculty have no voice in proposing or rejecting them. The faculty, from their close relationship with the students, their intimate knowledge of student-work and student-life should, we think, be competent to regulate and control college government. The statement in regard to "low esteem" for the professors and faculty is somewhat sweeping, although possessing a kernel of truth. It is very much to be regretted that several professors in the last few weeks have been constrained to tell the students with whom they came in contact that the overseers could force the faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

...proved by the score of editorials which have appeared in the college papers founded, in most cases, as we believe, upon ignorance, not upon malice. The men who have come here from other colleges have been attracted by the superior opportunities which Harvard affords, and a statement by them that the Harvard system is not a failure will be of especial weight and significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1889 | See Source »

...friends to come to the aid of their alma mater and to present her with a reading-room such as she deserves, such as the ever-increasing number of her students demands, such as the present poor accommodations render an obvious necessity. We concur with President Eliot in his statement that such a call for a sufficient sum of money to do away with the present utterly inadequate reading-room will be favorably received, and urge the President, the Fellows, and all others interested, to take the matter in hand immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1889 | See Source »

...purchase of the ground. On account of the unfortunate result of the football season, the FootBall Association is not in shape to lend any assistance toward defraying the expense of fitting up the field. The BaseBall Association is in fairly good shape, but Captain Willard is authority for the statement that a part of the necessary amount for putting the field in condition will have to be raised by subscription...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Athletic Field. | 2/8/1889 | See Source »

SIRS: The publication in your columns of a review of the President's report, and the statement therein that a gift of $25,000 was made last year for the building of five courts for the nine, naturally raises the question why has this improvement not been made? No doubt sufficient cause for the delay exists, yet it would contribute to the satisfaction of the friends of baseball to know what this cause is. May we not hope through your columns for an explanation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 2/8/1889 | See Source »

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